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Synovial Sarcoma

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Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors

Abstract

This tumor, despite having a wide spectrum of different microscopic patterns, is a clinically and morphologically well-defined entity, whose name is suggested by the fact that sarcoma cells are reminiscent of the cells of normal synovium (see pag. 10). The better differentiated cells of synovial sarcoma, however, present immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features typical of epithelial rather than of synovial elements, so that recently some Authors proposed the term of soft tissue carcinoma, or carcinosarcoma.

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  1. University of Bologna, Italy

    Mario Campanacci M.D. (Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pathology, Director of the 1st Orthopaedic Clinic, Director of the Graduate School of Orthopaedics, Director of the Tumor Centre)

  2. Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

    Mario Campanacci M.D. (Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pathology, Director of the 1st Orthopaedic Clinic, Director of the Graduate School of Orthopaedics, Director of the Tumor Centre)

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Campanacci, M. (1999). Synovial Sarcoma. In: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3846-5_79

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